The wealthy Baron Emerson (Robert Koroluck) travels around the world hunting big game. Lately, he’s turned to human prey.
And, for his latest challenge, he’s headed to the lawless Wild West with his companion Kowloon in tow.
He finds intriguing prey in Franklin County, where a man named Chamberlain (Conner Trinneer) has been thrown in prison and sentenced to hang for killing four men he claims killed his wife, and then tried to kill his daughter.
Emerson offers the deputy guarding Chamberlain a deal: $500 to look the other way while he spirits the condemned man off to the mountains to be the prey in a deadly game.
When the deputy hesitates, Emerson blows magical white powder in his face, and he passes out.
And so the hunt is on. But Emerson likes to play fair, so he arms Chamberlain with a handgun and six bullets.
If Chamberlain survives, two women might hold the key – a lonely widow named Marie and a daughter named Leia with whom he wants to be reunited.
Connor Trinneer as Chamberlain, on the run for his life in A Good Day to Die (2015)
Robert Koroluck as Baron Emerson with Jay Kwon as Kowloon in A Good Day to Die (2015)
Review:
Quite frankly, a low-budget bore. The idea of humans as big game prey isn’t new, but the film could have been intriguing with an actor with a knack for eccentrics in the role of the hunter. The right actor in that role could have carried the film. Koroluck isn’t that actor.
The script doesn’t allow Trinneer to do much but grimace, look tough, play mouse in a game of cat and mouse and wear fake blood that apparently doesn’t get washed off his face for days at a time. In fact, the script makes him seem like less than worthy prey.
His own gun empty, he wins a fight with Kowloon, but never thinks to take that man’s loaded handgun. When Marie accosts him with a loaded shotgun, he takes it from her, unloads it and tosses it to the ground rather than using it to arm himself.
And the film goes into a downward spiral once the hunt ends and the action moves back to town for a final shootout. The outcome is completely illogical … unless an entire town full of people sniffed the same white knockout dust the baron used earlier in the film.
Nadia Lanfranconi as Marie in A Good Day to Die (2015)
Connor Trinneer as Chamberlain with Leia Perez as Leia in A Good Day to Die (2015)
Directed by:
Rene Perez
Cast:
Connor Trinneer … Chamberlain
Robert Koroluck … Baron Emerson
Nadia Lanfranconi … Maria
Jay Kwon … Kowloon
Leia Perez … Leia
John Welsch … Mayor Codswell
John Scuderi … Deputy Wallace
Charlie Glackin … Sheriff
Sean Story … Assassin
aka: Prey for Your Death
Runtime: 80 min.
John Scuderi as Deputy Wallace with Robert Koroluck as Baron Emerson in A Good Day to Die (2015)
Jay Kwon as Kowloon, Baron Emerson’s assistant, in A Good Day to Die (2015)
Memorable lines:
Baron Emerson, upon arriving in Franklin County: “Oh, good. It looks like someone has noticed my money.”
Kowloon, challenging Chamberlain: “Guns are for cowards.”
Baron Emerson, as Kowloon lies injured: “Please, don’t be dead, or I will never be able to forgive you.”
Chamberlain: “You here alone?”
Maria: “No.” She pats her shotgun. “I have my friend Winchester.”
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